Wheeonk, blared the bugle of Dr. Walter Baker. The band struck up the "Sidewalks of New York." Cornell-Rockefeller Hospitals' entry, Bronx Cheer (by Simple Simon, out of the East River), was coming into the ring. The white-trousered, white-skirted crowd pressed closer, gabbled excitedly. Was it true that the Accident Ward had given the Obstetrical Clinic's Lucky Miss (by Chance, out of Wedlock) a shot of morphine? The band struck up "La Marseillaise." Pourquoi Pas, entered by a young French nurse, was coming in. Over by the administration building two doctor-bookies gathered in...
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